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Looks awful in my opinion. They just took the old sign and welded it on to a new building, but the font and style of that sign in no way works with the style for the building. I hope this is just a quick mock-up and not any kind of real plan. The sign needs to both say, "yes, this is definitely State Street, but no, it's not the old stodgy version, look at the wave of this building, that's our new corporate brand."

Yea, it's a boring as can be. Signage on buildings is unfortunately a bit part of Walsh's Boston but the companies should at least be trying. Ideally, it would be integrated into the building the way it was on the old one.

This was probably the last tower to break ground while he was alive, as it happened 2 weeks ago, but yea SST could end up being the last tower to be built of his legacy, that would be an honor to have that as well. Imagine if thats the case having those 2 on the skyline, awesome.

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This was probably the last tower to break ground while he was alive, as it happened 2 weeks ago, but yea SST could end up being the last tower to be built of his legacy, that would be an honor to have that as well. Imagine if thats the case having those 2 on the skyline, awesome.

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The signage has the Boston tradition thing going on. That's something. Love it,
hate it, or whatever in between.... The font has always looked good, imo:
Certainly nothing egregious. Happy to see the tower getting built,
and the site eventually become a strong addition to Downtown & Greenway.

That is the elevator bank for the two top office floors. Not sure when, but I suspect it will be demolished when the section of the garage over Congress Street comes down. The remaining office floors are still in use. By whom I have not a clue. (Government??)

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That is the elevator bank for the two top office floors. Not sure when, but I suspect it will be demolished when the section of the garage over Congress Street comes down. The remaining office floors are still in use. By whom I have not a clue. (Government??)

I'm pretty sure it has to come down for One Congress to go up. Looking at the renders, the tower extends to the existing sidewalk on Congress Street. I've been thinking about asking someone in the lobby if there is a timetable for closure, which would give us some perspective on demolition timing, but I haven't been in that area recently.

I'm fairly certain that it's not part of this project. There are actually a handful of trees along that stretch already (not dissimilar to what's displayed in the rendering), so I imagine the pavers/empty parking lot are just "artistic license." Though I'd love to see the hand written "Special! $20 Enter after 1pm" sandwich board sign depicted in the renderings.

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As you can see in some of BeeLine's pictures, New Chardon Street, part of Merrimack Street, and Part of Congress Street have been narrowed by one lane to accommodate relocated pedestrian passage around the site. Fencing bumped out all the way to streets.

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As you can see in some of BeeLine's pictures, New Chardon Street, part of Merrimack Street, and Part of Congress Street have been narrowed by one lane to accommodate relocated pedestrian passage around the site. Fencing bumped out all the way to streets.

Understood. I have to disagree it's a missed opportunity though. It's an office tower, so of course it's going to have a corporate ground level. It's not as great as a retail filled base, but how often do we see that with office towers? The good news is that this is just one piece of a larger development, and if I'm not mistaken the other projects are supposed to be very street level oriented.